Monday, April 12

"Prisoners of the Heart"

This is how the Dutch Radio Worldwide titled its new dossier on arrested human rights activists and political prisoners across the globe. Adnan Hajizada is on that list (vide can be viewed here: http://www.rnw.nl/english/dossier/Political%20prisoners or below). He is a prisoner of heart. A man of dreams and great ideas. I take pride in saying he is my friend and that I know him and wont give up on him or Emin.

We all share a dream, that one day it all will work out, that we all will come to an agreement and that things are going to change, lives are going to get better, people are going to get better, governments are going to get better.

Adnan and Emin are prisoners of free, bright and amazingly strong heart.

And the world should know about them because these young men are just like every other person living in this world. Except what makes them different from the rest, is their extraordinary will to change themselves and the community around them.

There is a song by Common called "I have a dream" based on Martin Luther King's unforgettable speech "I have a dream" where he sings:

Welcome to Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines. I started this blog in 2008.

Flying Carpets is about Azerbaijan (where I am originally from) and a little bit about Turkey (where I live). Flying Carpets its mostly politics, and rights issues that I deeply care about and want to see change some day.

I hope it offers at least a tiny bit of glimpse into a country that has so much potential and yet wasting it all thanks to its leaders.